Speaker 1: How is your month going. Are you seeing any signs
Speaker 1: of spring yet? Any daffodils or crocus popping up out
Speaker 1: of the cold, hard ground. I've got quite a few
Speaker 1: daffodils that have popped up. They're not blooming yet, but
Speaker 1: they've popped up out of the ground. I'm not so
Speaker 1: sure they're happy about the way the weather has gotten
Speaker 1: weird after that weird cold snap. They probably felt it.
Speaker 1: They probably felt like pulling the covers back up over
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Speaker 1: March will be here before you know it. It'll probably
Speaker 1: come roaring in like a lion, but hopefully it will
Speaker 1: go out like a lamb. It is a month of transitions,
Speaker 1: and by the time that the month of March has passed,
Speaker 1: spring will be showing off in many wonderful ways. Let's
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Speaker 1: Oscars is an early spring event that's fun for a
Speaker 1: lot of people. The dominees for sure, but the millions
Speaker 1: of viewers too. Will you be watching the Oscars? If
Speaker 1: it's something you look forward to all year long, you
Speaker 1: will be thrilled with My guests today I've got a
Speaker 1: dynamic duo with US legendary songwriter Diane Warren and beloved
Speaker 1: actress singer Sophia Carson. The film they were involved with
Speaker 1: last year, tell It Like a Woman, has received denomination
Speaker 1: from the Academy for Best Original Song. Applause was written
Speaker 1: by Diane and performed by Sophia Carson. Diane Warren is
Speaker 1: one of modern music's most respected songwriters. She's penned nine
Speaker 1: number one's, thirty two top ten hits on the Billboard
Speaker 1: Hot one hundred. She is tied for having written the
Speaker 1: most number one songs as a soul songwriter in Billboard's history.
Speaker 1: She was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in
Speaker 1: two thousand and one. You might not know her name,
Speaker 1: but you got to know her songs. Rhythm of the Night,
Speaker 1: If I could turn back time, Nothing's gonna stop us
Speaker 1: now and break my heart because you love me and
Speaker 1: my favorite I don't want to miss a Thing by Aerosmith.
Speaker 1: All those songs sung by the biggest stars out there,
Speaker 1: all pinned by Diane Warren. She's an honorary Oscar recipient
Speaker 1: Honorary The woman has written the best songs in the
Speaker 1: history of my career, been nominated fourteen times, and she's
Speaker 1: won an Honorary Academy Award. She's won Grammy's, Emmy's Golden
Speaker 1: Globe winners. Her songs have been featured in more than
Speaker 1: a hundred motion pictures, and she's the sole owner of
Speaker 1: her publishing company, Real Songs, the most successful female owned
Speaker 1: and operated business in the music industry. Diane, who is
Speaker 1: a recipient of a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Speaker 1: Sophia Carson, who got her start on the Disney Channel,
Speaker 1: is also a force of nature forging a singular path
Speaker 1: in music, film, television, and philanthropy. She's a multi Platinum
Speaker 1: Award nominated singer and songwriter. In addition to performing Diane's
Speaker 1: song Applause that We're Gonna Talk About Today from the
Speaker 1: movie Tell It Like a Woman. Sofia recently starred as
Speaker 1: Cassie in the Netflix global phenomenon Purple Hearts, also serving
Speaker 1: as executive producer. An She co wrote and performed the
Speaker 1: film's original soundtrack. Next, Sophia will start opposite her friend,
Speaker 1: her bestie Tarran Egerton and Jason Bateman in the Netflix
Speaker 1: and Ambient thriller Carry On. Tell It Like a Woman
Speaker 1: is each your film comprised of seven short stories with
Speaker 1: women as the star. Each of the very different women
Speaker 1: face different challenges in their lives, and they each face
Speaker 1: them with extreme determination and courage that makes them stronger,
Speaker 1: more self aware. Some of the stories, which take place
Speaker 1: all over the world, are inspired by true events, while
Speaker 1: others are narrative fiction. All speak to empowerment, perseverance, inspiration.
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Speaker 1: me on love. Someone is the incredibly talented superstar written
Speaker 1: every hit song I think I've played in the last
Speaker 1: thirty or forty years of my career, Diane Warren, along
Speaker 1: with a beautiful talented young actress and singer. And my
Speaker 1: daughters and my granddaughters are all in love with so
Speaker 1: Fia Carson. Welcome to the podcast. Thank you guys. Tell
Speaker 1: It Like a Woman. I need to hear about how
Speaker 1: this collaboration came together, how you two came together, and
Speaker 1: how that collaboration came together. So I wrote the song
Speaker 1: for the movie Talt Like a Woman, which is a
Speaker 1: it's basically seven short films within one film about women's
Speaker 1: various women's stories and struggles, and it needed to be
Speaker 1: a song that could really speak to getting through it
Speaker 1: and giving yourself some applause for everything that you went
Speaker 1: through that you got through it. And it's really an
Speaker 1: really empowering song. And there was nobody that I could
Speaker 1: have gone to side Sophia to do the song because
Speaker 1: she's she is what that song is all about. She's
Speaker 1: such a strong woman, amazingly beautiful on the outside, beautiful
Speaker 1: on the inside, great singer, and here we are. It's
Speaker 1: just great that and it just got nominated for an
Speaker 1: Oscar and yeah, not that, but yeah, give yourself apause. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's that's amazing. And just the fact that this song
Speaker 1: is really, like like you said, it's you know, it's
Speaker 1: resonating with people, it's resonating beyond the movie. That's the
Speaker 1: best case scenario when you do a movie song or
Speaker 1: any song that it resonates. But if you write something
Speaker 1: for a movie and it fits that movie, which is
Speaker 1: the first thing you have to do, but when it
Speaker 1: can go beyond that movie and speak to what people
Speaker 1: are going through, and everybody really needs to give themselves
Speaker 1: some applause. No matter who you are, you have to
Speaker 1: stop and go you know what. Life isn't easy. One
Speaker 1: of the things I noticed when I listened to it,
Speaker 1: like for the third or fourth time is that it's
Speaker 1: an anthem and you could have had like share with powerful,
Speaker 1: you know, tear your guts out, powerful voice, but Sophia,
Speaker 1: your gentleness with those strong words combined, it's like silk.
Speaker 1: Silk is the strongest fabric. Did you know this? The
Speaker 1: silk thread if they could replicate If scientists could replicate
Speaker 1: a silk thread, you could suspend a truck from a
Speaker 1: rope like a half inch long. Wow, I mean a
Speaker 1: half inch around. It's the strongest fabric there is. Wow.
Speaker 1: And they can't they can't replicate that. And yet it's silk.
Speaker 1: It's the soft, it's soft and it's strong. And so
Speaker 1: that's that's Sophia. Yeah, that's what I got out of
Speaker 1: that song. And you're not You're like, but you're not
Speaker 1: like that and all that. You know, you didn't need
Speaker 1: that for that song. You couldn't have beend it, you
Speaker 1: know it needed Yeah, powerful and in the power is
Speaker 1: I can't explain what I'm trying to say. Maybe and
Speaker 1: the emotion, Yeah, it's like it's the that's what I got.
Speaker 1: I love. This is an empowerment song, but it is
Speaker 1: like silk. It's strong, but it's not abrasive, it's gentle.
Speaker 1: If other singers would have saying it, it could have
Speaker 1: been you know, could have it might have been abrasive.
Speaker 1: But what Sophia brought to it is that quiet power.
Speaker 1: It's like that wiet power. You're right, It's like, yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, it's like you know, it's like some of
Speaker 1: someone whispers and you have to like lean in to
Speaker 1: hear it, right, and then it's that's what's beautiful about it.
Speaker 1: But it's still powerful and at the end you get
Speaker 1: you go full on power. Then yeah, So I've got
Speaker 1: some questions here, Sophia, that granddaughter wrote to me who
Speaker 1: loves You, and she said, what is the favorite rule?
Speaker 1: What's a favorite role you've ever played? Oh, favorite role
Speaker 1: I've ever played? That's it's a tough question. Um. I
Speaker 1: don't have kids, but it feels like it's like picking
Speaker 1: your favorite child in a way, because I've really like
Speaker 1: your favorite song. It's like every role that you've played
Speaker 1: or every song they steal a piece of your heart.
Speaker 1: You know, you pour a piece of yourself into this
Speaker 1: character and you love them for a different reason. Um.
Speaker 1: But it is true maybe with kids as well, that
Speaker 1: you too have favorites or at least I have favorites,
Speaker 1: I would say right now, maybe because it's fresh just
Speaker 1: in my memory, or I think it meant a lot
Speaker 1: to me as an actor and as a performer as
Speaker 1: I was acting as her. It was Cassie and Purple Hearts,
Speaker 1: um my movie on Netflix, right yeah, big yeah, big phenomenon.
Speaker 1: And her other question was was it difficult to transition
Speaker 1: from being a kids star to the phenomenon that you'd become.
Speaker 1: Was that got a hard transition or it's if Sometimes
Speaker 1: it's a fun fact for people. I think sometimes people
Speaker 1: think that I started younger than I did. But I
Speaker 1: was not a kid's star. I was twenty one when
Speaker 1: I got my first job. I had gone to college.
Speaker 1: I got my first dish or my first callback in
Speaker 1: the middle of final exams at UCLA. So I wasn't
Speaker 1: a child star. So I was lucky that I didn't
Speaker 1: have as difficult as a transition as I would imagine
Speaker 1: if I was a child in this business. I was
Speaker 1: an adult, and although I have grown a lot as
Speaker 1: an artist throughout the years, it's felt like a very
Speaker 1: seamless transition. Every song that I've written, every role that
Speaker 1: I've chosen with time. I feel like I've grown with
Speaker 1: my audience at the same time, and it's been a
Speaker 1: really beautiful journey. Well, I hope you have many, many,
Speaker 1: many more decades of this beautiful Ny. She will, by
Speaker 1: the way I think she will. And Diane, oh my gosh.
Speaker 1: Last night I jotted down a list because I don't
Speaker 1: know if you can see here, but I take notes
Speaker 1: while I'm on the air. I write down the person's
Speaker 1: name and a little bit about their situation. Joslyn lost
Speaker 1: two kids and their best friends in a tragic accident,
Speaker 1: and Jamie wanted a song, you know, So I take
Speaker 1: these notes and I went through like the last two
Speaker 1: weeks of my notes, and I just want to read
Speaker 1: you a list of some of the songs, Diane, that
Speaker 1: were requested just in the last two weeks. I get
Speaker 1: week by Brenda Carlyle. Nothing's going to stop us now.
Speaker 1: For a couple that both went through COVID, both ended
Speaker 1: up in the hospital, both are back on their feet
Speaker 1: and just going forward into the future. If I could
Speaker 1: turn back time, I wrote this down Maria, who lost
Speaker 1: her hubby and wanted to tell him one more time
Speaker 1: how much she loved him, And she said, I know
Speaker 1: that song means something else, but for me, if I
Speaker 1: could turn back time, I just want to say I
Speaker 1: love you again. Oh my god, Wow, my favorite song ever.
Speaker 1: I don't want to miss a thing. That was Peter
Speaker 1: for his wife Linda a fifty five years Wow, that's
Speaker 1: the song he wanted. Perfect. Somebody called last night who
Speaker 1: was getting married. One of that is their wedding song.
Speaker 1: Reba ile B was requested Taylor Dane, I'll be your shelter.
Speaker 1: I got that request like two weeks ago, and I'm
Speaker 1: way back in the Yeah, I'm sitting here as I'm
Speaker 1: going through my notes going, oh my gosh, it's like
Speaker 1: you you have like this direct connection to the heartbeat
Speaker 1: of my audience. Wow. It's yeah, because music is so powerful,
Speaker 1: you know, Like and even if you write something from
Speaker 1: a movie, you know, outside of that movie, it takes
Speaker 1: on another life. Like you know, I don't want to
Speaker 1: miss the thing was Armageddon, you know, but yet it
Speaker 1: becomes this big anniversary song you know, applause. It is
Speaker 1: written you know, for the movie. Tell it like a woman,
Speaker 1: but yet it goes beyond that and it speaks to people,
Speaker 1: you know that. I just love the fact that these songs,
Speaker 1: can you know speak to whatever somebody's going through? I
Speaker 1: think that listening to the words of applause over and over.
Speaker 1: You know, schools are trying hard coming out of COVID
Speaker 1: to re engage kids and get them reconnected to what
Speaker 1: matters to them. I was thinking as I listened to
Speaker 1: the words of that song. We need to have grade
Speaker 1: schools and junior highs and high schools having assemblies and
Speaker 1: being gifted that song for each kid. Now, I'm down
Speaker 1: any any school can use that. I'm happy to let
Speaker 1: that song be used everywhere. Wouldn't that just be amazing
Speaker 1: if kids could listen to the lyrics and go, you know,
Speaker 1: you're so right, absolutely everything. Recognize who you are sometimes
Speaker 1: I know it's hard, but you shine. You're super nova.
Speaker 1: They can't stop you. You were born unstoppable, and you
Speaker 1: dared to dared to know you're remarkable. Stand up, raise
Speaker 1: your hands up everything. It's about flooding yourself, loving yourself,
Speaker 1: using your voice, being unafraid. It's absolutely what everyone in
Speaker 1: the world needs to hear, especially, like you said, children
Speaker 1: who are being molded as we speak, and bullied as
Speaker 1: we sallied believe I was bullied. I was I was
Speaker 1: one of those kids that gotullied a lot. You too, Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: you know what. Look where we are now and what
Speaker 1: we're what we're here. We're like doing so well, and
Speaker 1: you are so the antithesis of bully. You have a
Speaker 1: rescue farm where you save lives of animals and the
Speaker 1: biggest heart in the world. Exactly. You like to hide
Speaker 1: behind this and a snarky um facade, but I stay
Speaker 1: right through it. You've just got this huge heart for humanity,
Speaker 1: for the planet, for creatures, for animal for the things
Speaker 1: that have single handedly written the songs that are synonymous
Speaker 1: with love. You know what I mean, Like she has
Speaker 1: a pulse on that, like you said, in the most
Speaker 1: extraordinary way. Thank you. That's your superpower. Thank you, that's
Speaker 1: your superpower. You're able to take the human experience, whether
Speaker 1: it's losing somebody, whether it's going through you know, hell
Speaker 1: and standing. You said one time, you know what, I
Speaker 1: would much rather know that my song is number one
Speaker 1: and people are requesting it, then get some stupid award.
Speaker 1: Your priorities are right, Yeah, I want these songs to
Speaker 1: reach people. Of course, you know it wouldn't someone doc
Speaker 1: if somebody would like recognize it, but we already agnize it.
Speaker 1: Thank you. You know, I had tim million folks tuning
Speaker 1: in every night who recognize it, so million every night,
Speaker 1: fourteen time Academy Award nominations. Yeah, I mean that's pretty cool.
Speaker 1: But I mean it's just exciting the fact that you know,
Speaker 1: here all you know, you know, with ten million people
Speaker 1: listening to you, and they're requesting my songs over and
Speaker 1: over and over, and beautiful thing is this song is
Speaker 1: going to speak to all of them. Applause. Yeah, everybody,
Speaker 1: no matter who you are. You know, like the most
Speaker 1: confident person in the world is not confident. Yeah, you
Speaker 1: know you might have like what you just said about me,
Speaker 1: Like you know, someone could be so confident and like
Speaker 1: you think they're they've got so together, but you know what, inside,
Speaker 1: you know, they're beating beating themselves up and they don't
Speaker 1: really know who they are. If just one out of
Speaker 1: ten people who listen to applause take it to heart
Speaker 1: and go, dang I I am. If you look at
Speaker 1: your fingerprint, there's nobody else like you in the history
Speaker 1: of taking fingerprints that has ever been found to have
Speaker 1: the exact same fingerprint. Did you know that not even
Speaker 1: identical twins. Yeah, they're pretty identical. Twins have different finger prints.
Speaker 1: They begin identical, but then as life goes on and
Speaker 1: you get burned or you get cut, it changes the
Speaker 1: nature of your singer prints and even the habits you have,
Speaker 1: how you hold your pencil, that sort of thing. Right,
Speaker 1: If we are that unique by a one inch square
Speaker 1: piece of skin, how much more unique by our hearts,
Speaker 1: our souls, our passions, our experiences, our dreams. And that's
Speaker 1: what applause speaks to. Wow, wow, that's deep. But it's true.
Speaker 1: It's true. It's true. I can't sing a note. I
Speaker 1: have a three note range. I went out for quiet.
Speaker 1: Voice goes way beyond that three note. By the way
Speaker 1: you look exactly, Realize who you are, Jelilah. Realize and
Speaker 1: realized I was a super nover superstar who was given
Speaker 1: a voice to talk, not to sing. And that's that's
Speaker 1: my gift, that's my superpowers. Your voice still your voice,
Speaker 1: your voice and heels and makes a difference. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: everybody has a voice, even those who literally don't have
Speaker 1: the ability to speak, they still have their story to share.
Speaker 1: So thank you for applause, and thank you for years
Speaker 1: and years and years of great music. How wild is
Speaker 1: it that we get a chance to talk to these
Speaker 1: two incredible, empowered women. I'm in heaven right now. My
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Speaker 1: fits and feel the feat Oh my god, thank you
Speaker 1: so much for watching those do a favorite of them
Speaker 1: a descendant Descendant. That's awesome. I'm just I am thrilled
Speaker 1: that you. I know that it's a crazy season and
Speaker 1: you've got a lot going on, and you got a
Speaker 1: lot of interviews. And by the way, you both look hot. Um,
Speaker 1: thank you. It's lighting. Lighting, lighting is working at Diane,
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Speaker 1: taking time to be and I appreciate you both. Thank you. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna that's all good. Everybody in the room give
Speaker 1: yourself from applause, all right, and I'm gonna be enjoying
Speaker 1: playing that. For no kidding. At least ten of the
Speaker 1: people I talked to last night on the phone needed
Speaker 1: to hear that message. So yeah, I can't thank you
Speaker 1: women enough for being with us who are incredibly talent,
Speaker 1: and those talents are a gift to so many. Please
Speaker 1: keep doing what you're doing, come back and join me again.
Speaker 1: Best of luck on Oscar night you, Diane, you deserve
Speaker 1: this honor so much. Legendary songwriter Diane Warren beloved singer
Speaker 1: songwriter actress Sophia Carson released the original song Applause from
Speaker 1: the feature film Tell It Like a Woman. The song,
Speaker 1: beautifully penned by Warren and passionately but gently performed by Carson,
Speaker 1: is a global anthem of empowerment, not just women, but
Speaker 1: empowerment for all of us, and it's available now. Carson
Speaker 1: has expressed her honor at being the voice for the
Speaker 1: song dedicated to the women of the world. She calls
Speaker 1: it a deeply timely reminder to applaud ourselves for how
Speaker 1: far we've come, because we fight like women, we survive
Speaker 1: like women, and we do it together. Diane two fills
Speaker 1: a similar honor, saying to be a part of a
Speaker 1: film that promotes women in front of and behind the
Speaker 1: camera has been a very rewarding experience. Sophia's beautiful and
Speaker 1: dynamic voice embodies the emotion and strength of both the
Speaker 1: song and its message. The film premiered at the Taromia
Speaker 1: Film Festival, where it won the Excellence Award. It arrived
Speaker 1: on video on demand platforms including Google Play, Prime Video,
Speaker 1: and Voodoo on February seventeenth. Be sure to check it
Speaker 1: out and be watching the ninety fifth Academy Award ceremony
Speaker 1: March twelfth. Cheer On Diane Applause is hailed as a
Speaker 1: female empowerment anthem, but after listening, you will see how
Speaker 1: easily it will be everyone's anthem. Every man, every woman,
Speaker 1: every child, who has ever had to face the wind,
Speaker 1: has persevered, has overcome obstacles, has been made stronger for it.
Speaker 1: Of course, that includes you. Whatever you're facing, trust that
Speaker 1: it is not permanent. All storms pass, and we're generally
Speaker 1: more compassionate people because of them. On your darkest days.
Speaker 1: Look for signs of hope, the new buds that are
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Speaker 1: into my radio show each night. I'll do my best
Speaker 1: to keep you company through the good days and the
Speaker 1: tough days. Give yourself applause. You've got this. God bless you,
Speaker 1: and I'll see you next time. I love someone with
Speaker 1: the Lila